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You may or may not realize how truly frightening that is. A military in a democratic, sovereign nation should have oversight from civilian authority. If people

You may or may not realize how truly frightening that is. A military in a democratic, sovereign nation should have oversight from civilian authority. If people knew that their sons and daughters were effectively raiding another country as a belligerent force - why did they not stop it. The fear comes not in that they didn't, but that they couldn't Human nature should be feared, especially when you have a loose cannon firing at will, and only grateful that the barrel is facing away from you. If it were to turn towards you, how do would you stop it? We never truly learn from history as much as we think we do.

alextheparrot 6y ago
> A military in a democratic, sovereign nation should have oversight from civilian authority Would it not be fair to say that in a representative government those elected representatives are the civilian authority? The US Congress approved using military force in Iraq, by quite large majorities in both bodies. That is not to say the war was good or the reasons true, just that the second paragraph of your critique seems unfounded as there was oversight by the republic’s civilian authority.
- vagrantJin 6y ago
  > Would it not be fair to say that in a representative government those elected representatives are the civilian authority? Absolutely. But those office bearers have constituencies I presume? If office bearer xan make their own decisions regardless of what the people who put them in power say - we would be stretching the idea of a democratic republic to the extreme, don't you think? The taxpayers should have the ability to veto decisions if in large enough numbers.